Lassen Volcanic National Park in California “Nature is ever at work building and pulling down, creating and destroying, keeping everything whirling and flowing…out of one beautiful form into another.” John Muir

Lassen Volcanic National Park, CA: One of the many beautiful wildflowers growing in Paradise MeadowLassen Volcanic National Park, CA: Hiked to some snow.Lassen Volcanic National Park, CA: Paradise MeadowLassen Volcanic National Park, CA: One of the many beautiful wildflowers growing in Paradise MeadowLassen Volcanic National Park, CA: One of the many beautiful wildflowers growing in Paradise MeadowLassen Volcanic National Park, CA: Mt Lassen and Manzanita LakeLassen Volcanic National Park, CA

Sequoia-Kings Canyon National Park in California. Home of the giant sequoia, earth’s largest tree.

Death Valley National Park is the hottest (record 134 degrees) , driest (low rainfall, high evaporation rate), lowest (282 feet below sea level), and wildest (3.1 million acres and is the largest designated wilderness in the USA outside Alaska).